The edificatory prose of Kievan Rus'
By: translated by William R. Veder and with introductions by William R. Veder and Anatolij A. Turilov.
Contributors: Veder, William R.; Turilov, A. A.; Grigorīĭ, filosof, fl. 1061-1063.
Series: Harvard Library of early Ukrainian literature. English translations ;; v. 6 =; Harvardsʹka biblioteka davnʹoho ukraïnsʹkoho pysʹmenstva. Korpus anhliĭsʹkykh perekladiv ;; t. 6; Harvard Library of early Ukrainian literature.; v. 6.
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University
Published: 1994
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Sermons, Church Slavic -- Kievan Rus -- Translations into English.; Devotional literature, Church Slavic -- Kievan Rus -- Translations into English.
Other titles: Izbornik Svi͡a︡toslava 1076 g. English.
Description: This volume consists of two of the oldest texts of Kievan Rus': the Izbornik of 1076 and Grigorij the Philosopher's Homilies on all the Days of the Week. The Izbornik is the earliest extant witness to the reception and subsequent transformation of Eastern Orthodox moral instruction that resulted from the transmission to Rus' of Bulgarian Slavic translations from Greek.

The Homilies of Grigorij the Philosopher, translated for the first time into any modern language, is the earliest dated and localized Slavic text (Kiev, ca. 1062). These rhetorically artistic and sophisticated homilies reflect the views of an early Kievan preacher and the moral needs of his Rus' audience. The Edificatory Prose of Kievan Rus' is an indispensable volume for all students of Slavia Orthodoxa in the eleventh century.
Notes: Both works translated from Slavic and Church Slavic.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and indexes
Table of contents: title: The Izbornik of 1076; title: The Homilies of Grigorij the Philosopher.